Britney Spears opened up to the media for the first time in two years in a candid interview in which she talks about her road to recovery and life today with her sons. On tonight's ET, we have a sneak peek of the OK! magazine cover story that is on newsstands this week.

"When I have my children, I'll get up and make them pancakes," she tells OK!, which has photographs of Britney's refrigerator covered with artwork done by her sons. But it wasn't always happy times.

Britney's fall from grace was a big one: Her divorce from Kevin Federline, her custody battles over sons Sean Preston and Jayden James, as well as the many painful events -- such as shaving her head and being rushed to the hospital -- caught by the glaring lights of the paparazzi.

The road back for the pop star began when her father was named co-conservator of his daughter's estate, and things have been looking up ever since. Britney has her sons on Mondays, Wednesdays and overnight on Fridays -- and her father Jamie Spears is with her at all times when she has the boys. Otherwise, he has his own home in Santa Monica.

"Right now, everything is okay," Jamie says. "I just don't know what six months from now will bring, or three months. But as it is right now, the conservatorship is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. This is the way I live, one day at a time."

Today, Britney is healthy and has returned to work. Her appearances on "How I Met Your Mother" were ratings bonanzas for the CBS series, she is back in the recording studio working on her next album, and she took time out to visit her family -- and meet her niece -- in Louisiana.

"That was special, but it was also strange because she's always been the baby, and now the baby was having a baby. It was mind-boggling. I was shocked a little bit. But it was really cool, and she was happy. When she got to the hospital, we all thought it was going to be an all-day thing, and instead, the baby just sort of popped out. Okay, we're happy now!"

For more on the Britney Spears story, tune in to tonight's ET.